Scotland and the Wider World: Essays in Honour of Allan I. Macinnes

235 Pages·2022·1.468 MB·English

by  Neil McIntyre, Alison Cathcart

STUDIES IN EARLY MODERN CULTURAL,
POLITICAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY
Volume 44
SCOTLAND AND THE WIDER WORLD

Scotland and the Wider World
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ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF
ALLAN I. MACINNES

Edited by
Neil McIntyre and Alison Cathcart

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Contents
List of Contributors ix
Preface xi
List of Abbreviations xiii
1. Covenants, Clans and Unions in Context: Celebrating the
Scholarship of Allan I. Macinnes 1
Neil McIntyre, Alison Cathcart, and John R. Young
Part I. Peoples and Cultures in Britain and Ireland
2. The Commonwealth Refounded: the British Vision in its Edwardian
Moment, 1547–50 21
Arthur Williamson
3. Island Empire: James VI and I and the Isle of Man in an Archipelagic
Context 34
Alison Cathcart
4. The Forgotten Crisis of the Sixteenth-Century Irish Aristocracy 49
Ciaran Brady
Part II. War, Religion and the House of Stuart
5. The Auld Alliance and the French Intervention in the Thirty Years’
War, 1630–48 69
Steve Murdoch
6. Scotophobia in Later Stuart England 84
Tim Harris

7. Alexander Shields (c. 1660–1700) on the Right of Punitive Arms 99
Neil McIntyre
8. Charles Edward Stuart and Seven Hundred Irish Soldiers? A
Reappraisal of a Turning Point in the ’45 116
Daniel Szechi

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CONTENTS
Part III. Union, Empire and Enlightenment
9. From Didactic to Pragmatic: What Scottish Enlightenment? 135
Jean-François Dunyach
10. The Two Rabs’ Big Adventure: Scottish Networks and Influence in
Imperial Britain 150
Sarah Barber
11. Confederal Union and Empire: Placing the Albany Plan (1754) in
Imperial Context 167
Steven Pincus
12. The Empire Strikes Back: Indian Influences on Land Legislation in
Scotland and Ireland in the Late Nineteenth Century 188
Ewen A. Cameron
List of Publications 203
Index 211
Tabula Gratulatoria 217

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Contributors
Sarah Barber is Senior Lecturer in History at Lancaster University
Ciaran Brady is Professor Emeritus of Early Modern History and Historiography
at Trinity College Dublin
Ewen A. Cameron is Sir William Fraser Professor of Scottish History and
Palaeography at the University of Edinburgh
Alison Cathcart is Associate Professor in Early Modern Scottish History at the
University of Stirling
Jean-François Dunyach is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at Sorbonne
University, Paris
Tim Harris is Munro-Goodwin-Wilkinson Professor of European History at
Brown University
Neil McIntyre is an Affiliate in Theology and Religious Studies and former
Lecturer in Scottish History at the University of Glasgow
Steve Murdoch is Visiting Professor at the the Institute for Northern Studies,
University of the Highlands and Islands
Steven Pincus is Thomas E. Donnelly Professor of British History at the
University of Chicago
Daniel Szechi is Honorary Professor of History at the University of Aberdeen
Arthur Williamson is Professor Emeritus of History at California State
University, Sacramento

John R. Young is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Strathclyde

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Preface
This volume emerges from a conference held at the University of Strathclyde
in 2018 that sought to acknowledge the enormous contribution made by
Allan Macinnes to the study of early modern Scottish, British, and European
history. Macinnes, currently Emeritus Professor at Strathclyde, retired in 2014
and, we believed, there was an urgent need to celebrate his exceptional career
while also reflecting on the significance of his scholarship. Doing so has allowed
us to think deeply about the transformation of Scottish History as a disci-
pline in the past half-century as well as the development of the early modern
British historiographical landscape. Colleagues, friends, and former students
of Macinnes were invited to consider, therefore, how he had influenced their
work and in what ways they saw it as building on, or a response to, his research.
The key theme that emerged in the essays that follow was the way in which
Macinnes had emphasised the need to consider Scotland – or, indeed, other
territorial units – comparatively and in an international context. How, in other
words, had Scotland interacted with the wider world? As will soon become clear,
the wide-ranging contributions to this volume reflect, indeed, a career spent
collaborating fruitfully beyond Scotland’s borders and taking Scottish History
to a global audience.
The volume has, however, been delayed severely by a number of unforeseen
circumstances – not least serious illness, bereavement, and the impact of
COVID-19. It is with great pleasure, then, that we can finally thank the institu-
tions and individuals that helped to make the conference such a success, and
who have supported the volume to publication. For their generous financial
support, we thank, firstly, the Scottish Historical Review Trust and the
Economic and Social History Society of Scotland. For her organisational nous
and good humour, we thank Rowena Hutton. For the memorable whisky-tasting

that concluded the first day of the conference, we thank Kieran German. For

the provision of whisky glasses and the design of commemorative glassware, we

thank Campbell McClure and Glencairn Crystal. For his fantastic last-minute
discussion of the ‘Ice Pick’ on the second day, we thank Stephen Mullen. For
his own heartfelt note of thanks, we are grateful to Mike Russell MSP. For their

immeasurable patience and forbearance, sincere thanks to Boydell & Brewer,
and especially Michael Middeke, Megan Milan, and Elizabeth Howard. Finally,

we thank our wonderful contributors, whose enthusiasm and infinite patience
has been so gratefully received. That a stellar cast of international scholars were

so willing to get involved speaks to the strength of Macinnes’s friendship as
well as his scholarship. Although not shy of controversy – a second volume of

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PREFACE
essays by his opponents would have been no less prestigious! – we believe it is
essential that, in the words of Mike Russell, his lifelong contribution to his field,
his friends, and his country is fully recognised. We are delighted, therefore, to
acknowledge in print our many debts to Macinnes and his hugely important
work.
Neil and Ali
June 2021

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